A Home at the End of the World: A Novel by Michael Cunningham

From Michael Cunningham, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer of The Hours, comes this commonly praised novel of 2 boyhood associates: Jonathan, lonely, introspective, and uncertain of himself; and Bobby, hip, darkish, and inarticulate. In long island after collage, Bobby strikes in with Jonathan and his roommate, Clare, a veteran of the city's erotic wars. Bobby and Clare fall in love, scuttling the plans of Jonathan, who's homosexual, to father Clare's baby. Then, whilst Clare and Bobby have a child, the 3 circulate to a small condominium upstate to elevate "their" baby jointly and, with a strange buddy, Alice, create a brand new form of relatives. A domestic on the finish of the World masterfully depicts the charged, fragile relationships of city existence today.

Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843) has lengthy been famous as one of many maximum poets of the German language, yet his value to philosophy has surfaced in basic terms relatively lately. even supposing Schelling and Hegel stated Hölderlin early on as their equivalent, for a very long time his philosophical inspiration remained unknown outdoors the small circle of his pals.

Fyodor Dostoevsky accomplished his ultimate novel— The Brothers Karamazov—in 1880. a piece of common charm and value, his exploration of excellent and evil instantly received a world readership and this present day “remains harrowingly alive within the face of our state-of-the-art concerns, paradoxes, and joys,” observes Dostoevsky pupil Robin Feuer Miller.

Valery Bryusov, Russian Symbolist poet, is brought via this option of 9 of his poems in an English translation:• To a younger Poet • To the Poet • Sonnet to shape • the woman acquaintances • To town • “We travelled far…” • the arriving Huns • Achilles on the Altar • The light Horse

Orphans are ubiquitous within the literature of the overdue 19th and early 20th centuries, and there were numerous serious reviews that examine orphans’ metaphoric implications and the way within which they functionality as barometers of burgeoning social matters. however the fin de siècle gothic orphan has been mostly neglected, if no longer denied outright.